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The Rise of the Service Economy
Buera, Francisco J. - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of...
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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …
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Spatial Growth and Industry Age
Desmet, Klaus - 2012
U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory where local sectoral growth is driven by technological...
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Population Aging and Structural Transformation
Cravino, Javier; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rojas, Marco - 2021
We quantify the role of population aging in the structural transformation process. Household-level data from the U.S. show that the fraction of expenditures devoted to services increases with household age. We use a shift-share decomposition and a quantitative model to show that U.S. population...
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2013
We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry … experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where China and India have been …
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The Rise of Services : The Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply
Buera, Francisco J. - 2013
This paper quantifies the roles of increases in the demand for skill-intensive output, the efficient scale of service production, and female labor supply in the growth of services. We extend the Buera and Kaboski (2012a,b) model to a two-person household, incorporating a joint decision on home...
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